The people who had come out with Jiuming each tried their own methods to sense the barrier Uzumaki Jiuming had released. But only the Konoha shinobi could truly sense it. Of course, Nagato could clearly see the barrier thanks to his Rinnegan.
But Yahiko and Konan couldn't. They had no Kekkei Genkai, nor had they undergone extensive ninja training, so their ability to sense Chakra was extremely weak. They couldn't detect the barrier Jiuming had released without a sound.
"Hey, kid, did you really release some kind of barrier?"
Yahiko looked around but didn't notice anything unusual. Thinking Jiuming was messing with him, he said with some displeasure,
But before he'd even finished speaking, a sword hilt smacked him on the head.
"Sure, I'm not very old, but you shouldn't call me 'kid.' You should call me Uncle!"
"Try that again, and I won't go so easy on you."
Yahiko hadn't seen how Jiuming had appeared in front of him. He'd only felt a sudden pain in his head after speaking.
When did he...? Yahiko was startled. Under Jiuming's threat, his tone changed from its earlier rudeness.
"Uncle Jiuming, did you really release a barrier? I can't sense it!"
Yahiko covered his forehead with one hand and spoke in a small voice.
"Just 'Uncle,' not 'Uncle Jiuming'!"
Jiuming lowered his gaze slightly and jabbed Yahiko in the stomach with the sword hilt. Ignoring Yahiko's cry of pain, he turned to Nagato and said:
"You should be able to 'sense' it, right?"
From the beginning, Jiuming hadn't expected Yahiko and Konan, who had only recently started ninja training, to learn his Fuinjutsu.
It wasn't that he looked down on them or thought they lacked talent for ninjutsu. It was that learning Fuinjutsu required a certain foundation. Nagato, with his Rinnegan, could